[QuadList] Weekend Quad Photo--It's sports related. About as sports related as you can get--

[Ted Langdell]

The premier of ESPN's Sports Center was preserved on...

http://espnfrontrow.espn.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ROOM11.jpg

and is one of the early entries in the ESPN archive catalog.  According to ESPN's 
http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2013/08/the-lineup-a-dozen-espn-artifacts-you-wish-you-had-in-your-man-cave/

This card catalog (inset) was once the filing system used to organize tapes by sport and year. The tape library has now expanded to a 62,000-square foot facility that holds more than 2,000,000 film and tape assets – and is now cataloged digitally!
http://espnfrontrow.espn.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Catalog.jpg

Looks to me like there is videotape stored vertically on the left-hand shelves, and film stored flat on the right hand shelves.

ESPN reports:
The tape archives has approximately 300,000 feet of shelving in its three archive locations
ESPN’s North Campus Library warehouse is approximately 70,000 square feet. (For comparison: Josten’s Arena at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando is also 70,000 sq. ft.)
The ESPN warehouse team recycles on average about 5,000 tapes monthly
There are approximately 25 different types of media in the archive.
ESPN has a lot of film, according to Ken Boudreau, ESPN's Senior Director of Media technology, who is heavily involved in the archive and visited us at NAB.

Here's some of the photographic and magnetic sound film, (likely from ABC or other collections acquired over the years) in a Facebook post noting that there are 2,244,976 tapes in the archive:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=692152870826729&set=a.194030000639021.38023.192692764106078&type=1&theater

If you scroll down the post, you'll find a link to the Quad tape of Sports Center's first show and photos of an Ampex AVR-2.  It's AVR-2 serial #197, I just acquired. 

I don't have the Shakey's Pizza sign or Crystal Dairy wagon. :(

ESPN does maintain a collection of equipment for archival replay. 
http://espnfrontrow.espn.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ROOM1.jpg

Part of it is seen in the above linked picture, including Sony BVH-1100, BVH-2000, BVH-2180 (three hour) and BVH-3000 series machines, at least one of which appears to be a 3100 three-hour machine.  Interesting that the 1100 and 2000 series machines all have outboard BVT TBCs.  

Maybe Mr. Killion has some insight as to why the outboard BVT's and not the internal BVT-2150 on any BVH-2000s new enough to use them?

With tape now "old school," files and data streams are the thing today. An April 25, 2014 ESPN Technology Facebook post reports that ESPN processes nearly 45 Petabytes of data daily, while Google averages 24PB worldwide per day.

Even at a penny a byte, that would be a lot of coin.

Meantime, the man now at the helm of ESPN's technology is retiring after 35 years with the cable network.  Chuck Pagano started in August, 1979, just weeks before the network signed on.

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2014/04/paganolaberge/

The press release reports, "Before joining ESPN, Pagano worked for WFSB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Hartford, Conn., as a technician from 1977-1979. The native of Waterbury, Conn., (half-) jokingly says he joined ESPN to cut his commute in half."

Pagano is a two-time EMMY winner, SMPTE David Sarnoff Medal recipient and has been inducted into several broadcasting-related halls of fame.

And those are your Weekend Quad Photo(s) for now.

Cheers from an about to get very warm Northern California.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

Eighth Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB:  12:30pm on Tuesday, April 14, 2015




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